The AdvoKit

Are you creating a subset of the congressman's site?

Potholes are the gateway of civic involvement

Cannot hide from fact, every wants holes fixed, not ideological

RealEstateCafe eGov & #VRM: Are potholes gateway of civic involvement? http://n.pr/iPotHole Need app to map / monitor agency disclosure #vrmcrm2010 #reVRM

http://twitter.com/RealEstateCafe/statuses/22198723699

Airline Passenger's Bill of Rights

Class action lawsuit

Trying to build an effective megaphone / crowdsource

Blast a message at a politician where they are much more likely to hear it

Presence of this tool?

A set of APIs

Consumer Financial Protection Agency

Warren

Creating a destination for people to come to, watch, then participate, after they become comfortable with an issue.

Politician only as good as their staff's ability to bubble up issues.

People need a voice

Once a conversation begins and attracts a large group, can spin into a group without asking anyone to join

Hosted on http://NewGov.us

Will be able to set up sites for individual cities and towns, using domain names like

http://ma.newgov.us/Cambridge

http://mass.newgov.us/Cambridge

Can you use this for citizen petitions / referendums / Class action lawsuits